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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1912
Page
9
W T Pittman, superintendent of the Allentown Fair Poultry Show, announces eggs will be priced at one dollar per dozen in a few weeks. A bustling crowd and a chicken farm owner figure in the scene, with no further details provided.
December issue highlights scholarly articles by Florian Cajori C. C. Andrews Charles T. Brues Alvan A. Tenney John Bauer A. K. Rogers Oberlin Smith John Maxson Stillman Edmund Raymond Turner and others. Notable items include Nobel Prize in Medicine and vital statistics and a study on the Hindu Arabic numerals.
The December issue maintains high standards with fiction and features including Christmas essays by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a Confederate letters installment, and stories by Roy Norton and Ellis Parker Butler. It previews Napoleon campaigns volumes, Egyptian poems, and desert travel narratives, plus Harper’s Christmas guidance and scientific works on the electron.
The piece mocks spring fashion with rigid silhouettes and a pancake hat forming a cross, urging girls to be straight up and down. Grace yields to severity as the thin girl dominates the look while the fat girl is dismissed, with editors unwilling to advise on dieting.
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